Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 June 1890 — MR. BLAINE WRITES A LETTER. [ARTICLE]

MR. BLAINE WRITES A LETTER.

The Secretary oV State Says a Word as to Free Sugar. A letter from Secretary Blaine to exMayor Cony, of Augusta, Me., says; “You 1 " are in error in supposing that I am opposed to sugar being admitted free of duty. My objection is not to free sugar, but to the proposed method of making it free. If, in the pendiug tariff bill, sugar is placed upon the free list, we give to certain countries a free market for $95,000,000 of their products, while they are not asked to open their makets to the free admission of a single dollar products. We ought to have, in exchange for free sugar from certain countries, a free market for, breadstuffs and provisions, besides various fabrics from all parts of our country. In short, we ought to secure, in return for free sugar, a market fdr $60,000,000 ©r $70,000,000 worth of our own products. It will not require reciprocity treaties to secure this great boon. The tariff bill can contain all the necessary conditions, The legislative power is able to secure the desired end.

“Within the last twenty years v?e have given the countries south of us fi-ee admission for nearly $60,000,000 worth of their products without receiving a penny’s advantage in exchange. If sugar be now made unconditionally free we shall have given to theLatin-American countries free admission for $150,000,000 of their products It is time, I think, to look out for some reciprocal advantage. We are a very rich nation, but not rich enough to trade on hat unequal basis.” Patents were granted Tuesday to Indiana inventors as follows: C. A. Bertsb, Cambridge City, punching and shearing machine; C. F. Darnell, Indianapolis, gate : hinge; Jonas Form wood, Goshen, picket swing machine; J. W. Hanlon, Michigan' City, gate; C. D. Harris, Indianapolis, thermostalic valve regulator; T. Hauck,, curtain fixtures; G. K. Hubbard, Fort Wayne, section press; B. G. Hubbard, corn product, and flaked corn product; C. M. Kilor, wire tightener; N W Myers, Lamaka, trestle; S. E. Pheister, Tippecanoe, car coupling; J. Quindry, Fort Branch, folding carriage top; Godfriod Schumacher, Morris, movable frog for railway crossing; J. W. Stone, Thorntown, gate.